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MECHANISM FOR FLUSHING TANKS; No. 315,063. Patented Apr. 7,1885

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE GHILSON PHILLIPS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

MECHANISM FOR FLUSHING TANKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,063, dated April'7, 1885.

Application filed January 8, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE OHILsoN PHIL- LIPS, of the city and county ofProvidence, of the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Mechanism for Flushing Tanks; and I do hereby declare thesame to be described in the following specifica-tion and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 avertical and longitudinal section, of awater-closet tank provided withmy invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafterpresented.

In such drawings, A denotes a tank, having an induction-pipe, a,provided at its upper part with a cock, b, from the stem of whose plugthere is extended an arm, 0, to a hollow sphere or float, d, such pipe,cock, arm, and float being common to tanks. In the lower part of thetank is an educt, 6, provided with a valve, f, and there opens out ofthe upper part of the tank and extends down below the educt anoverflow-conduit, 9.

To a shelf, h, extending across the tank at its top, there is ful crumeda right-angular lever, '6, having a weight, 70, fixed to the upper partof its upper arm. The lower arm of such lever is connected to the valvef by a chain, rope, or wire, Z, and to a ball-float, m, by a chain orcord, a, hanging loosely, all being as represented. Furthermore, alever, 0, fulcrumed tothe shelf, has its inner arm projected directlyunderneath and against the lower arm of the bent lever, a rope, chain,or wire, being suspended from the arm of such lever, as shown. Onpulling downward the said rope, chain, or wire 1) the lever 0 will betilted, so as to move the lever z in a manher to cause the valve to belifted off its seat, in which case the weight of the upper arm of thelever will be forced backward beyond a vertical line passing through thefulcrum of the lever, the upper arm of the lever being carried by theweight against a stop, r, in which case the valve will be held off itsseat while the lever is thus tipped. On the water descending in the tanksufficiently the ballfioat by its weight will draw the lever back to itsnormal position, and allow the valve to close on its seat, and therebystop the outflow of water from the tank. O'ne position of the lever isshown in full lines and its other position or that in which it bearsagainst the stop in dotted lines.

\Vhile the water is falling in the tank the ball-float, buoyed by thewater, will descend with it until the chain a, connecting the said floatwith the lever *5, becomes drawn into a vertical position, which havingtaken place, as the water may continue to descend, it will fall awayfrom the ball-float, and thereby cause the weight of the latter to dragupon the le ver until such weight may be sufficient to tilt the leverinto a position for its weight k to fall and carry such lever back toits normal position for the valve to close on its seat.

I do. not herein claim for use with a tank and its eductioirvalve thecombination of a bowl, an open weighted lever, a ball, and an open leverhaving abutments and a projection, as represented in the United StatesPatent No. 300,540.

In my flushing apparatus I have no open lever or any ball to roll in oneof them, and I have no bowl fixed to the valvestem and to be raised withthe valve. I employ a ballfloat attached to the tripping-lever by achainthat hangs loosely and does not interfere with the backward movement ofthe bent lever, and therefore such movement of the bent 1e,- ver doesnot require the simultaneous raising of the ball-float with the valve.

In my flushing apparatus the force required to raise the valve off itsseat has not in so doing to raise the weight employed to depress thevalve, and therefore the valve can be easier elevated than would be thecase were it weighted by a bowl fixed upon it or its stem. When the bentlever is on its forward position, its lower arm rests on the front armof the tripping-lever, which also rests on the shelf.

I claim The combination of the angular lever 2', provided with thetripping devices-viz the weight k, the lever 0, and line pwith thestop'r, to arrest the said angular lever in its rearmost position, andwith the valve and the ball-float m, connected to the angular lever bychains Z and n, all being applied to a tank and the valve-seat of itseduct, and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

GEORGE OHILSON PHILLIPS.

Witnesses:

' GEo. E. LEONARD,

EDWIN T. HERRIGK.

